St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-10

d dlu, ana yet IL might De
true. But it seems it is not true. The
most fashionable milliner in New York says
so. She gets more for hats and bonnets
on the subject is final.
1T is absurd" she said to New York
| Sun reporter. 1--WE could easily make hats
and bonnets that would be worth that price,
! but no one would buy them. Do you know
how much the most fashionable and
wealthy ladies i'll town want to get their
bonnets for? Twenty-Five dollars. We
| get S35 and sometimes $40 for bonnet, but
| these prices are mainly for imported ones.
There's not much money in an imported
bonnet at those figures. Take one that costs
| 100 francs in Paris; that's $40 Add so
per cent. duty; that's 80, or $50 in all. So
that when you take the risk OF its pleasing
and your help and rent into consideration.
your profit is small. Of course, all our inn
ported goods are from Paris. There's
nothing tasteful or pretty made for women
in London. They dress the men well there,
! but women are obliged to look to Paris for
| styles.
when q woman pays $55 or $40 for a
| bonnet she expects to get everything the
whole store. She pretends she can get the
same thing for less money in Sixth avenue,
when even man can see the difference be-
tween bonnets here and bonnetS there.
| What makes the cost? o, the quality of
the velvet, the expensive trimmings and
feathers. Now. here's love from Paris
(holding up a jaunty bonnet of chocolate
colored plush trimmed with row of heavy
Jet beads and with half of the russet-red
tail feathers of bird of paradise). I've
refused $35 for it. 1t is as good, and as
snowy, and as expensive as any woman on
the continent has or can get. And it is too
expensive Tor the most of them. They
don't like to go above $25.'
This milliner said that women are very
economical. They compare favorably with
the men in this respect They may pay
S25 for a bonnet. but they insist on getting
the worth of their money. ''Give man
500 and a woman $780," said she, ''and
see what each will do. The woman
will bring home a lot of things.
The man will smoke up cigars, drink
wine. and get UP dinner for his friends.
He will have nothing left but a headache
for his money" Whether this comparison
be true Oh not. recent researches into the
fashions adopted by the ladies this winter
revealed the fact that it takes an enormous
amount of money to satisfy woman of
fashion. 1t has been found that bonnets
come as high as $40. sealskin sacques are
bought every day Tor $500 to 5000. and coats
of Russian sable are worn by ladies whose
husbands paid 81, 600 for them. The tailor
made cloth wakingsuits average 500 in
cost and only form one in the series of four
dresses needed for a lady's daily changes.
Her afternoon home dress is likely to cost
SIS or 500, her evening dress, if in the
height of fashion. will cost $500 to $500,
and she needs S25 wrapper to wear at her
toilet before breakfast and wrapper worth
$50 to $50 to wear at breakfast. The
Broadway shopping establishments now
keep on hand silk underclothing at S35
suit, chemises at $780, skirts at $50 to $50.
drawers at S35 to $50, stockings at SIP a
pair, and corsetS.